Prom Clues & Dancing Shoes - Men Who Stitch Mysteries, #8

What does AI slop have to do with prom season?

In the crafts-obsessed, isolated mountain town of Prospector's Rest, North Carolina, usually nothing. Most of the old timers here need help simply turning on a computer.

But this year, as junior crafter, Kennedy Contreras, endures the madness of prom season, he learns that those AI videos not only exist here but have been weaponized into blackmail notes. With the principal of his high school and his favorite teacher targeted with threats to expose them as murderers--which they desperately claim isn't true--he and his friends in the Sheriff's Department have a brand new mystery to solve.

But doing so is not made any easier in the middle of prom season. With promposals becoming crazier all the time--how did anyone get a horse into the school lunchroom, anyway?--and Kennedy's boyfriend, Barry, wanting to find the right matching tuxedos to rent and forcing him into uncomfortable dancing shoes, Kennedy's got other things on his mind.

Not least of these is how--as his crafting scholarship and his senior year end--he can find a way to stay in town, rather than return home or head off to college. Kennedy just wants to create cute crafts and hang out with his friends and boyfriend, but will he be able to if he's halfway across the country from them again?

Can Kennedy help stop the blackmailer, find a way to stay in Prospector's Rest, and discover some shoes which don't make his feet hurt? He's going to need that prom magic to guide him through this time.

Set in a fun, fictional town in the Blue Ridge Mountains, the Men Who Stitch diverse, cozy mysteries will have you wanting to move in with the colorful residents of Prospector's Rest and begging for another tale of the adventures of its odd citizenry.